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Smith Farm, Winston-Salem’s newest elementary school located just off Linville Road near Kernersville, is a beautiful school with a great faculty as well as wonderful students and parents. But one thing it is lacking is a playground, since...

Entrepreneur, author and philanthropist Chris Gardner will speak at a free event on Sunday, Oct. 6 at 3 p.m. at the Arts Council Theater, 610 Coliseum Drive. His book, “The Pursuit of Happyness,” is this year’s On the Same Page community read...

Emeka and Carrie Anazia are alumni of N.C. A&T Husband and wife Emeka and Carrie Anazia have released the book “Acing the Undergrad: Your Personal Mentor.” The two summa cum laude N.C. A&T graduates wrote the book to inspire today’s...

The real-life Olivia Pope is coming to North Carolina Central University. Judy Smith, the crisis-management expert who is the inspiration for Kerry Washington’s character on the hit show “Scandal,” will be the inaugural speaker for Central’s...

Police Chief Barry D. Rountree of the Winston-Salem Police Department has promoted 17 police officers. Captain Bryan Blakley was promoted to the highest rank. He will become an assistant chief, effective Sept. 30. Blakley has served 27 years in...

Special to The Chronicle Earl Brown Jr. didn’t travel to Washington, D.C. late last month to attend the commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, but on Aug. 28, 1963, he was in D.C. for the real thing. “I’m an only...

Special to The Chronicle The City of Winston-Salem has created a new program to promote commercial development on a number of major commercial corridors across the city. The program, the NRSA Commercial Real Estate Listing Service, will pay a...

Special to The Chronicle Salem College expands its program offerings this academic year with the addition of three new majors: political science, biochemistry and design. “With the addition of leading-edge programs like these, Salem College...

Three new principals have been hired by the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education. Teresa Dees will be the principal of Vienna Elementary; Pam Helms has been hired to lead Kernersville Middle; and Freda Smith will be the new principal...

Big Brothers Big Sisters kicked off its “60 Men in 60 Days” campaign last Friday at its 14th Annual Big For A Day and 3rd Annual Take Your Little to Work Day events. From Aug. 5 through Oct. 4, the agency hopes to recruit at least 60 men to...

The Civil Litigation Clinic at the North Carolina Central University School of Law has taken the case for the family of José Ocampo, who was fatally shot on Saturday, July 27 by a Durham Police officer. The School’s Civil Litigation Clinic...

Truliant Federal Credit Union will support local schools in the communities where it operates with its “Fill the Bus School Supply Drive” campaign. Collection boxes will be placed in Truliant Member Financial Centers (MFC) in three states as...

Yadkin County native Maurice “Mo” Cowan, who served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, will address a regional conference celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) on Saturday, Aug. 3 at 10 a.m. in Memorial...

A routine patching operation turned into a harrowing rescue effort last week for three N.C. Department of Transportation workers, who are being credited with saving the lives of a McDowell County family when their house caught on fire. Friday,...

Noble’s Grille Chef John Bobby and his team won the recent Fire In the Triad chefs’ cook-off. Noble’s Grille, located on Knollwood Street in Winston-Salem, is one of the Jim Noble family of upscale eateries. He won in a competitive battle...